It wasn't till Sebastian began to stalk toward her that she recalled her situation. She was wet and half naked, alone in a room with a strong brutish male of unknown intentions.
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.
The consequences of giving up on your dreams are bitter than the causes of your intentions to give up. Don’t give up!
Success is deliberate! Excellence is intentional! Victory comes out of struggles... Winners win because they played a role... Get busy now!
take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as w...
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.
Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.
He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller
And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.
I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.
Las cosas fluyen hacia donde tienen que fluir, y por más que te esfuerces e intentes hacerlo lo mejor posible, cuando llega el momento de herir a alguien lo hieres. La vida es así.
Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
